Red Mesa

Red Mesa by Thurlo, David. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312870607.

Navajo Police Special Investigator Ella Clah is on the run. Justine, Ellas cousin and fellow officer, disappeared after the two women argued publicly over Justines new boyfriend. Human bones are discovered at the spot where the younger woman had told her family she and Ella were to meet late one night. Suddenly Ella Clah, cop, is Ella Clah, murder suspect. Stunned by Justines death, Ella has no time to mourn. Her former allies in the Navajo Police Department and the FBI are hot on her trail, using techniques she taught them to hunt her down. Ella has to find the real killers--and fast--before the Dineh act on a growing belief that Ellas mother, brother, and young daughter have become evil.